Applicable products: CertMaster Practice
Note: The following requires that you have an LMS integration with CompTIA already configured in your Canvas instance. If you are interested in setting this up, please contact your Sales representative, who can get you in touch with our integration team. For more info on the configuration process, see our other articles on configuring our products in Canvas.
Placing links to the Learner Dashboard, Instructor Dashboard, and Practice Test into your Moodle course
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In your Moodle course, click the Turn editing on button in the top right.
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Scroll to (or create) the topic you want to place CertMaster Practice content in.
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Click + Add an activity or resource at the bottom right of the topic to open the Activity Chooser.
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Find and select the desired CertMaster Practice tool in the All or Activites tabs, or search for it using the Search bar at the top.
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The tool name can be set to anything your LMS Admin wants, but if our recommended configuration was followed, it will begin with ‘CertMaster Practice for <Certification Name>…’
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If you cannot find the tool in the Activity Chooser, your LMS Admin may have chosen to not show it there. In this case, select External tool from the Activity Chooser, and in the dialogue that appears, select the desired tool from the Preconfigured tool dropdown second from the top.
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Repeat steps 3-4 for each tool: the Learner Dashboard, Instructor Dashboard, and Practice Test.
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Click Save and return to course and your selected items should now appear under the desired Topic.
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Click the Edit dropdown next to the Instructor Dashboard, and select Hide, so only Instructors can see and click the link.
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Click the Edit dropdown next to the Practice Test, and give it the desired Grade settings. Learner scores will returned as a percentage that is then applied to the Points value you assign in the Activity settings.
If you’re interested in using the smaller, individual CertMaster Practice modules as graded assets, please read LTI 1.1 Basic Outcomes Functionality below.
Functionality and Tips
LTI 1.1 Basic Outcomes Functionality
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Our LTI 1.1 tools utilize 1EdTech’s Basic Outcomes functionality to pass grades back from our platform to the Canvas gradebook.
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There are a couple of requirements for this process to happen properly in CertMaster Practice:
- Only items set up as direct module links or Practice Test links will pass back grades. Grades for activities completed through a Learner Dashboard will not bass back.
- Learners must enter through the link in question in order for the grade to be sent back to the gradebook.
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Provided these requirements are met, grades will return to the LMS within seconds of student completion.
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If you wish to use the smaller, individual modules from CertMaster Practice, they can also be directly linked, but note two things:
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Due to the nature of the smaller CertMaster Practice modules – taking the user through each question multiple times until they ‘master’ them – full completion of a module implies a grade of 100%.
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If you understand this, and still want grades to pass back for them, we recommend utilizing an LTI 1.3 configuration for that (rather than LTI 1.1, discussed in this article), as it greatly simplifies the process. See our accompanying article.
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For more assistance, see the screenshots below.
Step 3. Select + Add an activty or resource. Clicking the highlighted one in the screenshot will add the selected content to the Moodle topic 'Demo Topic'.
Step 4. The Moodle Activity Chooser. You can search for ‘CertMaster’ at the top and then select the desired tool directly (such as ‘CertMaster Learn for A+’), or select ‘External tool’ and then pick the specific tool from the ‘Preconfigured Tool’ dropdown in the dialogue that appears.
